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The World Health Organization (WHO) has said 13,502 children have rejected being administered polio vaccine in Potiskum Local Government Area of Yobe State after a rumour of ‘killer injection’ circulated in Yobe State. The Cluster Consultant of the Organization,...

Edo State has been adjudged the best-performing state in routine immunisation coverage in Nigeria, with no variation between its administrative data and the outcome of the National Immunisation Coverage Survey conducted in 2016. This was disclosed by the World Health Organisation...

A survey of immunisation coverage found only 23 out of every 100 children aged were fully immunised last year, leaving 77% without full cover. Only one out of three children received all doses of needed vaccines, according to the National Immunisation Coverage Survey released in...

An estimated $371 billion annually from an initial $134 billion or $58 per person in new investments, is required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) health targets by 2030, according to a new study tagged The SDG Health Price Tag published in The Lancet Global...

UN agencies on Monday warned that no fewer than 12.9 million infants did not get any vaccines in 2016. According to the WHO and UNICEF, the number represents about 10 per cent of babies around the world. The UN agencies warned that no fewer than 13 million infants missed out on...

The Katsina State Government says it will immunise no fewer than two million children during the next round of Immunisation Plus Days (IPDs). Mr Abba Musa, the Assistant Health Educator, Katsina State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, made this known on Saturday in Katsina...

At least 15 children have died in rural South Sudan in a botched measles vaccination campaign that saw people as young as 12 years old administering vaccinations, reports say. South Sudan’s health ministry on Friday blamed the deaths on human error. Health workers...

Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi on Tuesday said pledged to ensure that no Kogi child would be crippled by polio during his tenure. The governor said this in Lokoja at the stakeholders meeting with members of Kogi State Taskforce on Polio Eradication, Routine Immunisation and Primary...

Nearly eight million Ugandans are expected to benefit from the massive Meningitis A vaccination drive in at least 39 districts in northern Uganda. The five-day exercise kicks off today [Thursday, January 19] and will run until Monday January 23 at all government health...

Programme Manager of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation in the Ministry of Health and Sanitation yesterday revealed that over 1.5million children between 0 and 59 months would be targeted for free Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV). Dr. Dennis Marke told a presser at the conference...

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